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An evaluation of a digital reading intervention for beginning readers

Nessy is an online reading intervention tool for poor readers that enables teachers to track progress in a number of key skills for reading so that they can effectively identify specific difficulties in individual children.


Exploring the Transition from Techno-Centric Industry 4.0 Towards Value-Centric Industry 5.0

The seminar will explore the transition from techno-centric industry 4.0 towards value-centric industry 5.0.


Coventry Premoderns Spring Lecture 2023: Professor Mihoko Suzuki

This lecture focuses on the accounts of early modern Japanese women by Luis Frois, a Portuguese Jesuit who lived for over thirty years in Japan and recorded his observations for his superiors that contrasts European and Japanese culture and an extensive history of Japan. 


Shifting from a knowledge to a knowing perspective to support agroecology with Julien Blanc

Julien Blanc will briefly present the research he has carried out in France and Brazil over the last 20 years and then focus on his current collaboration with a group of peasants in South West France from an action research perspective.


Starting Your PhD as An Active Education Practitioner: Webinar Open Sessions

The Research Centre for Global Learning (GLEA) are pleased to announce the online, part-time PhD in Global Education is open to enquiries and applications.


Virtual Open Days: Agroecology, Water and Food Sovereignty MSc

The Virtual Open Days for the Agroecology, Water and Food Sovereignty MSc will give prospective students a chance to learn both about the course, and the work of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience in which it is delivered.


Evaluating Cyber Security Evidence for Policy Advice: The Other Human Dimension (ECSEPA)

This project focuses on policy makers in the UK, specifically those civil servants who provide short and long term policy advice, either in response to specific crisis incidents or in the context of longer term planning for capacity building.


Phase 2 'Capacity Building and Internationalisation for Higher Education' Brazil Exchange

This British Council funded capacity-building project addresses UFES’s institutional and regional needs to enhance its internationalization capabilities within priority Social Sciences research areas as per its Internationalisation Plan.


Professor Elena Gaura’s efforts to raise profile of women engineers recognised on International Women in Engineering Day

Professor Elena Gaura has been recognised by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for her efforts to engage and improve outcomes for women in engineering.


New PhD Studentships with Coventry University beginning in 2021

Coventry University is inviting applications for a number of funded and self-funded PhD opportunities for prospective candidates, beginning in 2021.


Collaborative innovation in a local authority – ‘local economic development-by-project’?

This event will discuss how local authorities in England have adapted to austerity through collaborative innovation


Art, dance and performance and its impact on space, culture and society

Researchers Professor Sarah Whatley and Dr Marie-Louise Crawley (C-DaRE), Dr Imogen Racz (CAMC) have teamed up with Dr Katerina Paramana (Brunel University), to produce a new book entitled Art and Dance in Dialogue: Body, Space, Object.


Hearing, Speech and Literacy

When children have difficulty making connections between spoken and written words this makes it hard to learn to read. Because of this, difficulties hearing and speaking can affect literacy.


Researchers unveil secrets behind "Game of Thrones"

Researchers from Coventry University joined those from four other universities to probe how the sprawling, dynamic, complex narrative of A Song of Ice and Fire achieved broad accessibility and acclaim without surrendering to the need to be simplified.


Coventry’s RISING Global Peace Forum goes virtual as a result of the latest COVID-19 lockdown

Organisers of the internationally-recognised event, taking place from 11-13 November, have decided to move the whole event online in light of the Government’s new restrictions.


Addressing barriers to student success

Researchers from GLEA have contributed to a £7.5 million Office for Students (OfS) programme aimed at addressing differential educational and employment outcomes for underrepresented groups of students.


Postgraduate Researcher of the Year

As part of the Research Hootenanny held at Elm Bank, the new home of the Centre for Research Capability and Development, CAWR nominated Morwenna McKenzie to represent the postgraduate team in the Postgraduate Researcher of the Year competition.


RISING Global Peace Forum hailed as major success

Coventry’s RISING Global Peace Forum has been hailed a major success in helping to mobilise global influencers in efforts to deliver more positive cultures and peace around the world.


C-DaRE Seeking Researchers

This message is an effort to reach thinkers, scholars and artists whose ideas and work do not, at first glance, seem to intersect with our work. 


Edible insects and food sustainability

Could edible insects play an important role in tackling a growing global humanitarian problem?